How did the 'clothing company' go? Was it really slow at the beginning? I'm just wondering what I should be expecting and when to start from scratch if this doesn't pick up.

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it was successful because i just made a few designs based on a 'gimmick'
so i knew the demand was there and started selling well right off the bat. friends told their friends at other schools and i got a decent amount of orders from all over the state. I'd say in all I probably sold 300-500 shirts. I made low runs of personal designs just for fun too, but they obviously didnt have as big of a mass market appeal

as for starting a legitimate clothing company, it's a really hard industry to break into. every asshole thinks he can just silkscreen a few shirts and become the next Volcom. The market is so saturated since overhead is low so everyone is selling wares.

I'd say if you really want to pursue this and become 'big', the best approach would to be find a niche to cater to. Get in with that niche and either sponsor or do some collabs with the big names of that arena.

AvanTgarde
Yeah. They do a really good job at a reasonable price. They're based in LA. And I found from their facebook group that they even printed for The Hundreds and Five Four at one time in the past.

So far we made a group on Facebook and invited all our friends. We're gonna make a Myspace page for it also.

Oh and we might make stickers and give to friends and stick them on random places. Also, my friend has a dSLR, so if there's time, we want to do a photoshoot with our three shirts because seeing on people looks better than just the t-shirt itself.